{"title":"Review: <i>Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas</i>","authors":"Christophe Van Gerrewey","doi":"10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, eds. Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020, 256 pp., 125 color and 50 b/w illus. $49 (paper), ISBN 9783858818201 Christophe Van Gerrewey Christophe Van Gerrewey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 350–351. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christophe Van Gerrewey; Review: Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 350–351. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search “Las Vegas is not the subject of our book,” Denise Scott Brown declared in the preface to the 1977 second edition of Learning from Las Vegas, originally published in 1972 and cowritten with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour.1 What that subject might be is something that critics, historians, and architects have been trying to figure out for the last half century. Why should architects and students focus on popular and commercial developments in a place such as Las Vegas? Is it a problem if they suspend critical, aesthetic, or moral judgment? And how can such a study nourish contemporary architecture—with what effect—and for whom? These are also questions whose meaning and relevance for architecture have changed over time. Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas is one of several recent books that examine the significance and the legacy of Learning from Las Vegas. It collects about twenty... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45734,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, eds. Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020, 256 pp., 125 color and 50 b/w illus. $49 (paper), ISBN 9783858818201 Christophe Van Gerrewey Christophe Van Gerrewey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 350–351. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christophe Van Gerrewey; Review: Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 350–351. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.350 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search “Las Vegas is not the subject of our book,” Denise Scott Brown declared in the preface to the 1977 second edition of Learning from Las Vegas, originally published in 1972 and cowritten with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour.1 What that subject might be is something that critics, historians, and architects have been trying to figure out for the last half century. Why should architects and students focus on popular and commercial developments in a place such as Las Vegas? Is it a problem if they suspend critical, aesthetic, or moral judgment? And how can such a study nourish contemporary architecture—with what effect—and for whom? These are also questions whose meaning and relevance for architecture have changed over time. Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas is one of several recent books that examine the significance and the legacy of Learning from Las Vegas. It collects about twenty... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Published since 1941, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a leading English-language journal on the history of the built environment. Each issue offers four to five scholarly articles on topics from all periods of history and all parts of the world, reviews of recent books, exhibitions, films, and other media, as well as a variety of editorials and opinion pieces designed to place the discipline of architectural history within a larger intellectual context.
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